By Dimuthu Attanayake Sri Lanka’s 2020 decision to drop a light rail project financed by Japanese companies led to friction between the countries, amid Colombo’s pivot to China. Source: ‘Ball in Sri Lanka’s court’ as Japan seeks to deepen ties in bid to counter China’s Indo-Pacific influence
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‘Oppenheimer’ is expected to win big at the 2024 Academy Awards. But one point of controversy is that the director did not depict any images of the devastating aftermath of the dropping of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Getting those images out to the public was a longtime quest for Herbert Sussan, then […]
By Jessica Baker MULTIPLE cars appear to have been damaged after a packed plane passing overhead lost a wheel mid-flight. Shocking video showed the moment the tyre dropped from the sky and smashed into vehicles on the ground in San Francisco. A United Airlines jetliner bound for Japan made a safe landing in Los Angeles […]